Word: sound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...establishment of a Third College. For there seems to be among the faculty, the alumni and the undergraduate body a concensus that a fundamental change is imminent in not only the administrative machinery but in the purpose and method of Yale education. This feeling is the result of the sound observation of the above groups regarding some of the evils which not only threaten that university but have attached themselves to all institutions of higher education...
That explosion-many people can remember the fury-was the most violent in modern times, reports the National Geographic Society. It "made the biggest noise" ever heard by man. Three thousand miles away, on Rodriguez Island near Madagascar, its sound roared four hours after the happening. In South America, 10,000 miles away, the tide was raised. Waves around the East Indies archipelago were 100 ft. high and went 400 miles an hour. Volcanic dust blew 20 miles high; swift upper winds carried the dust around the earth in 20 days. Sunlight was murky; sunsets were apocalyptic...
...hungry, for the simple reason that tinned* food has robbed American women of their culinary art. The U. S. is effectually sealing itself in a tin can. Half the food Americans eat is tinned." That was to prove to his stockholders that their tin investments were based on a sound commodity. Then he let go with another toot: ''Americans are so busy and so imprisoned in their tinned lives that they never pause to consider what would happen if the tin supply ran out and they had to fall back on ordinary food. The U. S. consumes...
...Briand is expected to recommend that Secretary Kellogg sound out the other great powers on the question of ignoring Article X and forming a posse, with Sheriff America at its head, to hunt down the outlaw Mars. Meanwhile America is preparing a great navy building program with one hand while with the other she pens with dove's quill resolutions for Pan-American Conferences and Franco-American treaties of amity. Meanwhile the paradox at home has an international twin; only one obstacle of size stands in the way of a multilateral treaty outlawing war among the great powers. That obstacle...
Most needed now is a straightforward expression by secondary school educators of their belief, accompanied by consequent recommendations. Such a pedagogic bull would be a sound basis for discussion. The widely varying nature of entrance requirements in different colleges make it impossible for them to take a fixed position at present. Such delineation of public secondary school attitude should be not merely definitive, but suggestive in form. Foremost within it should be a statement of what further advance in specific fields of study the secondary school would be prepared to exchange for a cut in the over-wide requirements...